US3721954A - Method for surfaces exploration adapted in particular to seismic prospecting and device therefor - Google Patents

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US3721954A
US3721954A US00037146A US3721954DA US3721954A US 3721954 A US3721954 A US 3721954A US 00037146 A US00037146 A US 00037146A US 3721954D A US3721954D A US 3721954DA US 3721954 A US3721954 A US 3721954A
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  • the recording time necessary for obtaining these two values may be very short and as short as half a period of the transmitted signal.
  • the resulting recording is then used for restoring, e.g by calculation, and at FIG. 1 diagrammatically shows the travel of a transmitted wave train reflected by a deep sub-surface layer.
  • FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates the principle of a conventionalprospecting-method.
  • FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates the principle of the prospecting method according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 A diagrammatically illustrates the principle of the transposed prospecting method according to the invention.
  • FIG. .4 diagrammatically illustrates the principle of the method of this invention in the case of an inclined mirror.
  • FIG. 5 shows the location of the receiving device with respect to the transmitting source, in the case of a plurality of mirrors.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a device comprising n receiving units in line with the transmission source and the principle of restoration.
  • FIG, 7 illustrates the restoration image obtained according to the invention with the use of two receiving i the device for practicing the method of the invention
  • a device for receiving and recording the signals produced by the waves reflected from the various strata within a relatively long time corresponding to at least the travel time of the waves reflected by thedeeper sub-surface layer to be explored In order to obtain satisfactory results there is generally used a plurality of seismographs or groups of seismographs (e.g, 24 seismographs in line).
  • seismographs or groups of seismographs e.g, 24 seismographs in line.
  • the different traces thus obtained are subjected to static and dynamic corrections. They must for example be shifted with respect to one another, particularly when it is desired to carry out a so-called multiple coverage" of the mirrors according to the method described in US. Pat. specification No. 2,732,906 to MAYNE.
  • the new method of this invention has the advantage of requiring only a small bulk of recorded data since only two values are kept as representative of each trace instead of 6,000 according to the conventional method when taking one sample at each millisecond. Moreover this method provides for the multiple coverage" of the various geological strata, without paying attention, as it is usually the case, to the respective distances between the transmitting and receiving points.
  • FIG. 9 diagrammatically shows a second embodiment of the device for practicing the invention..
  • a sustained sine wave As applied to seismic prospecting, there is radiated into the ground, a sustained sine wave.
  • This wave can be generated, for example, by a vibrator of the conventional type.
  • the frequency of this signal will be for example between 15 and Hertz. It will be determined with an accuracy of a few cycles or cycle fractions according to the thickness of the ground layer'which has to be explored. A greater thickness will correspond to a greater accuracy of the frequency of emission.
  • the amplitude of the sine wave may be varied during time so as to compensate for the attenuation of the waves during the propagation thereof, the higher amplitudes corresponding to the beginning of the transmission.
  • the length of the wave train must be at least twice the travel time of the waves over the distance between two extreme mirrors of the ground layer to be explored.
  • the length of the wave train will be at least the travel time of the acoustic wave over the path ABC, B being the point of reflection of the wavetrain on the deepest mirror M,.
  • the length of the wave train may be as long as, for example, 6 seconds.
  • the reception is effected by means of a receiving device R(FIG. I) placed at the ground surface and whose reception frequency is tuned to the transmission frequency.
  • the reception time is short.
  • Each point at the ground surface thus vibrates according to a sinusoid having the same frequency as the transmitted sine wave, but with an amplitude and a phase which vary from one point to another.
  • the transmitted sine wave having a length of at least twice the travel time from M, to M, and the frequency spectrum being narrow enough, it is sufficient, starting from the time at which the waves reflected by the deepest mirror M reach the ground surface, to determine and record the maximum amplitude and the phase of the vibration at each receiving point for restoring all'the mirrors and diffracting points located between M, and M
  • the receiving and recording time may be accordingly very short, since basically halfa period is sufficient for the determination of the above mentioned parameters.
  • it may be convenient to extend the recording time ton periods for example n The summation of these n periods is thereafter effected whereby the ratio of signal to noise is increased by a factor of n.
  • the length of the receivedreflected signal rnay be only a few tens of milliseconds, whereas in conventional seismic methods the length of the received signal is generally 6 seconds.
  • acoustic waves are transmitted from a seismic source S at the ground surface.
  • the acoustic energy may be transmitted for example as a pulse in the case of a dynamite explosion or as a long signal when using vibrators.
  • receivers or groups of receivers Ra, Rb Rn laid in line-on the ground surface, receive the waves radiated from S and reflected by mirror M at the reflection points Ma, Mb Mn. There is then detected, in a known manner, the location of the reflection points Ma, Mb, Mn and consequently of mirror M by plotting on the recorded traces the phase relationship between the waves reflected by these various points.
  • each restored point corresponding to a single path such as S Ma Ra.
  • acoustic waves are transmitted, as in the conventional method, from a source S (FIG. 3) placed on the groundsurface, but this source must obligatorily transmit sine waves.
  • Receivers Ra, Rb, Rn receive the waves radiated from. S and reflected by mirror M.
  • the detected points are not the reflection points Ma, Mb, Mn, but the single image S, of source S with respect to mirror M. It is deduced therefrom the position of point 0' of mirror M at half-way between points S and 8,.
  • the 24 corresponding recordings will be used for restoring a single point, i.e the image S, of source S.
  • Said point S is thus restored by using 24 different travel paths, this being a convenient way for improving the signal to 'noise ratio.
  • FIG. 3 A There can also be used (FIG. 3 A) different recordings obtained from the same receiving device R of separate shots effected at different locations Sa,'Sb, Sn.
  • This method will be called, as in the conventional seismology, a transposed method, in contrast to the socalled normal method as illustrated in FIGS. 2' and 3. From the data recorded in R and corresponding to the paths Sa Ma R, Sb Mb R, Sn Mn R, the image R of i R in mirror M may be restored and point p thereof is deduced therefrom.
  • the system comprises several receiving points and a single transmitting source (direct method) the image of the source can be restored, whereas in the case of a plurality of transmission points and a single receiver (transposed method) the restored image is that of the receiving point, provided that the transmissions are not simultaneous.
  • restoration is no longer possible due to an insufficient number of information data. in the case of several receivers and several sources, there are restored the same number of images as the number of receivers and sources, provided however that simultaneous transmissions frorri several sources in the case of a plurality of sources, are
  • each image point will be located at the vertical of the transmission point (direct method). But in the case of an inclined mirror (FIG. 4), it will be normally restored at its actual position.
  • point S (FIG. 4) is located in the vertical plane passing through this line.
  • the seismographs have been placed along two directions the image S, can be restored irrespective of its sub-surface position.
  • the method of this invention thus provides for an operating technique similar to that of the multiple coverage" since to each restored point corresponds a number of separate wave paths equal to the number of receivers of the device. It is thus possible to practice the method in an easily adaptable manner since from each emission can be restored the different mirrors with a multiple coverage, without paying attention to what has been or will be the next emission point as well as the associated receiving device. It is not necessary, as in the conventional method, to sum up the recordings which correspond to well selected emission and reception points in order that the reflection points on the mirrors be common.
  • the static corrections have the usual seismic prospecting.
  • a body or a formation anomaly diffracts or diffuses the seismic energy, it forwards informations to all of the receivers and the method of the invention provide means for restoring the image of said body at its. true position; in fact said point acts as the above-mentioned sources S and S,.
  • the degree ofcoverage" for a diffracting point is equal to the number of different paths from this point to the receivers. In the case of simultaneous or successive emissions this number is equal to the product of the number of emission sources which have energized the diffracting point by the number of receivers of the device.
  • the receivers can be placed on the I ground along two directions or a single direction, i.e in
  • the size of the receiving device is not as in the case of conventional seismic prospecting, in relation with the length of the mirror to be detected at each emission, but of the resolution with which it is desired to restore the image of the different emission sources.
  • 5 indicates a transmission source at the ground surface.
  • S is the image point of source S with respect to mirror M i.e, the most superficial mirror which it is desired to restore. Thismirror will be assumed horizontal.
  • f0 is the emission frequency in Hertz
  • V is the propagation velocity, expressed in m/s, of the waves a through the formations which are assumed homogeneou's
  • a the angle of slope of the beam S R(x) with respect to the vertical at R(x).
  • the spatial frequency thus increases with an increasing angle 01,. If it does exist'other mirrors M M M, deeper than mirror M they will give image points 8,, S S,,.of source S.
  • the waves received at R(x), corresponding to these image sources add up to oneanother and, at said point R(x), the spectrum of the spatial frequencies corresponds to the sum of elementary spectra, each relating to aseparate source 8,, 8,.
  • the spatial'frequencies received by the receiving device increase with an increasing distance x and, at each receiving point, the higher frequency to be recorded, corresponding to the shortest wave length, is
  • the'spatial period A of the ground movement generated by the reflection onmirror M at a reception point at a distance of 500 meters from emission point S will be:
  • V velocity of the acoustic waves f0 emission frequency In this case sin a, has a value substantially equal to 0.5 and accordingly )t' 2 A.
  • the value of sin a On the'contrary, for a receiving point at the ground surface, at a distance of 1,500 meters from the emission source S,"the value of sin a, is substantially equal to 0.98 and the spatial period approximately equal to )t.
  • the maximum spacing betweentwo adjacent receivers at the'ground surface will be one half of the corresponding spacing at a distance of about 500 meters.
  • the principle of the restoration in the direct method consists to imagine that the seismographs are now sources of sine elastic waves and to combine, by calculation these various movements with one another. If the imaginary elastic waves generated by the seismographs are the same as those to which they have been subjected during the recording, the combination of all of these imaginary movements must restore the different image points of the emission sources.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a device composed of n seismographs in line, placed forexample on the same side with respect to the emission point 8.
  • each of said seismographs R associated to a device described hereunder has recorded the amplitude a, of the vibration at the corresponding point of the device, as well as its phase dai, the origin of the phases being for example chosen at emission point S.
  • a restoration method will be described below by wa of example.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the use of a device arranged in line according to the direct method, placed entirely on one side of the emission point S.
  • D and D the recordings obtained at D and D being either simultaneous or successive.
  • two kinds of treatments are possible according to the fact that D and D, can be considered as an assembly forming a single device or, on the contrary, as two separate devices whose recordings have to be treated separately.
  • P(x,y) as defined in FIG. 7
  • the assembly of the device, of this invention comprises a transmission device F, a receiving device G, a device I-I forthe treatment of the informations, a recording device I and a computer J.
  • the emission device comprises for example one or morevibrators 1, each transmitting s sine-wave signal of frequency f0, said vibrators having their energizing current supplied either from a single generator 2 or from a separate generator for each vibrator.
  • An electronic gate 3, placed in the circuit between generatorZ and vibrators l, is provided for issuing a transmission signal over the desired time interval, i.e, in the present case, during the time interval required for the travel of the acoustic waves through the surveyed vertical ground layer and back.
  • the different vibrators l When the different vibrators l are electrically interconnected, they can be placed on the ground in such a manner as to neutralize the surface noise, as already known.
  • the receiving device G comprises a receiving unit 4 per each trace to be recorded. Each receiver may comprise a plurality of detectors sovas to improve the ratio of signal to noise, as also known.
  • the device H for treatment of informations, placed on the ground, comprises an electric band-pass filter 5 centered on the transmission frequency f, and adapted to the band width of the transmitted signal. The signal issuing from filter 5 is then amplified in amplifier 6.
  • the number n depends on the relative levels of signal and noise at the recording. The higher the ratio signal/noise, the smaller will be number n. As a limit n could be as small as A period. In practice it will be more convenient to take a whole number as value of n.
  • the value of the ratio signal/noise which determines n is obtained by use of an electric filter 8 with a wide band-pass centered on the transmission frequency f, and an electronic comparator 9 receiving the signals issued respectively from filters 5 and 8 and comparing them. It generates a signal which is a function of the ratio signal/noise and is supplied to gate 7 for controlling the opening time thereof.
  • the sigrial issued from gate 7 is supplied to a retarding device 10 comprising one inlet channel and n outlet channels corresponding to the n periods retained by gate 7.
  • This retarding device may consist of a magnetic drum revolving at constant speed. Stationary magnetic reading heads are placed around said drum with equal spacings so that the travel time of a point of the drum over the spacing separating two successive heads is equal to the period T l/f of the transmitted signal.
  • the n outlet channels of'the retarding device lead to a summation device 11, which generates a signal in the form of a sine period corresponding to the average value of the n periods supplied thereto within the time interval At n/f,,.
  • An amplitude detector 12 measures the maximum amplitude a of the sine-signal issuing from the summation apparatus 11.
  • the device for treatment of informations further comprises a phase detector 13 receiving a signal directly issuing from generator 2 and the signal issuing from the summation device 11 and measuring the phase shift d) between said two signals.
  • the recording device I comprises a magnetic recorder 15, preferably of a digital type, recording, for each receiver, the value of the amplitude a given by detector 12 and the phase shift given by detector 13; i.e, in the case of a shot comprising 24 traces, there will be only 48 values to be recorded.
  • a computer J placed in the circuit after the recorder, provides for the automatic restoration, from the different values of a and (b, in accordance with the above-described method.
  • the images of the source or of the receivers are then represented by a distribution of true numbers in a vertical cross-section of the sub-surface passing at S and R, when the device is laid in line.
  • this device comprises a transmission device F, similar to device F of FIG. 8, transmitting a signal starting from time t.
  • a transmission device F similar to device F of FIG. 8, transmitting a signal starting from time t.
  • the receiving device G is identical to that of FIG. 8.
  • the device H for treatment of the received informations is also identical to that of FIG. 8 and issues the phase shift between the transmitted signal and the received signal as well as the maximum amplitude of the sine-signal received at each receiver.
  • the twosignals are simultaneously transmitted and the reception and treatment are carried out as in the preceding case (FIG. 8), but, at the restoration stage, there are obtained two images instead of one.
  • the device for carrying out the treatment issues successively two measuring values a and a of the amplitude and two measuring values it arid (11' of the phase shift.
  • the recording device I comprises a memory associated to a summation device indicated by reference 14.
  • the memory temporarily keeps the informations, relating to a and 11:, issued from the transmission device F, the informations a and 41', issued from F, and the summation device gives the amplitude:
  • a computer J completes the device of the invention. All of these operations may be repeated at different frequencies.
  • the restoration operations may be effected separately and added to one another. There can be added the different values of complex amplitudes A obtained at each of the points for the different frequencies and the modulus of their sum determined.
  • the above-mentioned examples are relating to the case where receivers are in line, (FIG. 6) which is insufficient as information for a restoration in three dimensions, i.e in volume. If such a restoration is desired, it is obvious that the receivers will not have to be placed along a straight line but to be distributed over a whole surface.
  • radio-wave transmitters and the receivers associated thereto there can also be used radio-wave transmitters and the receivers associated thereto.
  • Method for exploration at a distance from surfaces and discontinuities of a surveyed medium adapted in particularto seismic prospecting of subterranean surfaces, comprising transmitting from at least one point and receiving in at least one point, waves selected from acousticor radio-waves, said transmission and reception points being remote from said surface, wherein at one transmission point is transmitted a wave-train of substantially constant frequency and of a length at least equal to the travel time of the waves over twice the distance between two limit points of the surveyed zone,
  • Method for exploration at a distance from surfaces and discontinuities of a surveyed medium adapted in particular to seismic prospecting of subterranean surfaces, comprising transmitting from at least one point and receiving in at least one point, waves selected from acousticor radio-waves, said transmission and reception points beingremote from said surface, wherein there is successively transmitted from a plurality of transmission points wave-trains of substantially constantfrequency and of a length at least equal to the travel time of the waves over twice the distance between two limit points of the surveyed zone, there is received and recorded at one reception point the reflected and diffracted waves after a delay, following the beginning of the transmission of each wave-train, which corresponds to the travel time of the waves over the path from the corresponding transmission point to said receiving point through a limit point of the surveyed zone, and during a time interval at least as long as half a period of the transmitted wave-train, there are determined from each recording two characteristic numbers, one of the amplitude and the other of the phase of the recorded waves, and these numbers are used for
  • the transmission frequency of the wave train is selected from a frequency range whose width is in inverse ratio to the distance between the limit surface to be identified in the surveyed medium.
  • Device for exploration at a distance from surfaces and discontinuities of a surveyed medium particularly adapted to seismic prospecting 'ofsubterranean surfaces comprising in combination: means for transmitting substantially monochromatic waves, means for feeding with electric signals said transmitting means, means for limiting the transmission time of said waves to said time interval, means for receiving a signal corresponding to the waves reflected by the discontinuities of the surveyed medium, means for comparing the received signal to the received noise means for limiting the recording time of the received signal, depending on the ratio of the signal to the noise, to a selected number N of periods, means for measuring the maximum amplitude of said sine-signal, means for detecting the phase shift between the signal issued from the feeding means and the sine-signal issued from the summing means, means for recording, for each of the reception means, the value of the amplitude and of the phase shift, and means for restoring the images of the transmission sources or the reception points from said values of amplitude and phase shift.
  • Device for seismic prospecting of subterranean surfaces comprising the combination of transmission means of substantially monochromatic waves comprising at least two transmission units each of which transmits an identical signal at selected different times, means for feeding with electric current said transmission means, means for limiting the transmission time of each signal to said time interval, means for receiving each signal reflected from the sub-strata, means for comparing each received signal to the received noise, means for limiting the recording time of the received signal, in dependence with the ratio signal/noise, to a.
  • summation means successively issuing sine-signals, each corresponding to the average of the n periods of each received signal, means for measuring the maximum amplitude of each sine-signal, means for detecting the phase shift between the signal issued from the feeding means and each sine-signal and retarding means, associate with said summation means, for determining, by combining the amplitude and phase values, an amplitude value and phase value corresponding to the amplitude and the phase which would have been obtained by simultaneously transmitting waves from these different points.
  • Method according to claim 1 comprising receiv: ing the waves reflected from the various surfaces acting as mirrors, at a plurality of points so located that the spacing between adjacent receivers decreases wi th an increasing distance thereof from the transmission point.

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